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Australian rules footballer

Eddie Sholl

Personal information
Full name	Edward Sholl
Date of birth	15 April 1872
Place of birth	Melbourne
Date of death	29 June 1952(1952-06-29) (aged 80)
Place of death	Fitzroy, Victoria
Position(s)	Fullback
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1890–1892	North Melbourne (VFA)	032 (2)
1894–1896	Melbourne (VFA)	045 (2)
1897–1902	Melbourne	050 (2)
Total		127 (6)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1902.
Career highlights
VFL premiership player: 1900 Melbourne captain: 1899
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Edward Sholl (15 April 1872 – 29 June 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Sholl played six games in the 1897 inaugural VFL season, three of which were finals.

He captained Melbourne in 1899 and in the same year represented Victoria in an interstate fixture against South Australia.

A fullback, he kept Gerald Brosnan goal-less in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, which Melbourne won.

References

The Argus,"Former Melbourne captain dies", 2 July 1952, p. 8
AFL Tables: Eddie Sholl
Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 – The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0-9580300-5-7.
Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
"Fuchsias' Farcical Flag". Full Points Footy.

External links

Eddie Sholl at AustralianFootball.com

v t e Melbourne Football Club 1900 VFL premiers
Melbourne 4.10 (34) defeated Fitzroy 3.12 (30), at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground
Cumberland Gardner Geddes Hay Herring Langley Leith Lewis McClelland McGinis Moodie Parkin Purse Rippon Ryan Sholl Wardill (c) Young

v t e Captains of the Melbourne Football Club
Pre-VFA	1859: Wills/T. Smith/Hammersley 1860: Hammersley/T. Smith/Thompson/Wills 1861: Harrison/R. Wardill/T. Smith 1862: T. Smith/Woolley/Nicholls 1863: Harrison/Woolley 1864: Harrison/R. Wardill/Tait 1865: Wills/Harrison/R. Wardill 1866: Harrison/Neal/Conway 1867–1868: Harrison/Freeman 1869–1871: Harrison 1871: Goldsmith 1872–1873: Byrne 1874–1875: Goldsmith 1875: Forrester
VFA	1876–1879: Sillett 1880: Bennie 1881: Lamrock 1882: Rannard 1883: M. McKenzie 1884: John McDonald 1885: G. Aitken/Franks 1886: Morrison 1887: Kelly 1888: King 1889–1891: Fox 1892: W. Aitken 1892–1895: Fox 1895–1896: J. Wilson
VFL/AFL	1897–1898: Sutton 1899: Sholl 1900: D. Wardill 1901–1904: McClelland 1905: Langley 1906: Sowden 1907: Coutie 1908: Purse 1909: Nolan 1910–1911: Coutie 1912–1913: George 1914: Incigneri 1915: J. McKenzie 1919–1920: Heinz 1921–1923: P. Wilson 1924–1927: Chadwick 1928–1931: Warne-Smith 1932–1933: Vine 1934–1935: Niven 1936–1941: La Fontaine 1942–1944: Beames 1945–1947: N. Smith 1948–1949: Don Cordner 1950: McGrath 1951–1953: Denis Cordner 1954: Collins 1955–1956: McMahen 1957–1959: Beckwith 1960–1964: Barassi 1965–1969: Mann 1970: Johnson 1971–1972: Davis 1973–1976: Alves 1977–1978: Wells 1979–1980: Ditterich 1981–1987: Flower 1988–1990: Healy 1991–1997: Lyon 1998–1999: T. Viney 2000–2008: Neitz 2008: Bruce/James McDonald 2009–2010: James McDonald 2011: Green 2012–2013: Grimes/Trengove 2014: Grimes/Jones 2015–2016: Jones 2017–2019: Jones/J. Viney 2020–: Gawn
AFL Women's	2017–2018: Pearce 2019: O'Dea/Scott 2020–2022 (S7): Pearce 2023– : Hore

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